Filing-receptacle.



PATENTED JUNE 30, 1908.

G. M. DONBR. FILING REGEPTAGLB. APPliIOATION FILED JUNE 24. 1007.

INVENTOR.

WITNESSES: g. a. M w /(49% GEORGE M. DONER, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

FILING-BE GEPTAGLE Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed. June 24, 1907. Serial No. 380319.

. Patented June so, 1908'.

Be it known that citizen of the United States, and a resident of ment to Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Filing-Receptacle; and I do the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it apper-f tains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to fol ers or other receptacles for the filing of papers or other articles, and is particularly intended for the filing of the tariff sheets used by railroads doing an inter-changing business, but is not restricted to such use, as it ma be used for the filing of any articles for which it may be ap ropriate.

t is the custom for all railroads, which interchange business, to issue tariffs mutually agreed to by all of the interested lines. For example, if a Michigan line contracted for freight from Detroit to New York, the shiptravel via Toledo, they could route the shipment via any of the Toledo-New York lines, of which there are many, provided they had tariffs in effect with the selected line. As there are hundreds of different routes and hundreds of difierent commodities it will readily be seen that it requires a multitude of tariffs to carry on the business, and as there are no two roads which have adopted either exactl the same size or same form of tariffs, it w' f also be apparent that the question of filing the tariffs of the different roads so as to be readily accessible is a very difficult one.

The object of my invention is the provision in a receptacle of this class, of a tongue which is secured interiorly to the bottom thereof and projects outwardly through a side or end of the receptacle in the plane of the bottom, and which is adapted both to receive a designation of the contents of the receptacle, thus directing a person to the package he is looking for, and to form a finger-grip by means of which the receptaclemay be withdrawn from the file case.

The invention is fully described in the following speeifioation and illustrated in the accompanying drawing,' which shows a perhereby declare.

spective view of the folder embodying the features of my invention.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates the upper and 2 the lower leaf or half of the wrapper comprising my invention, which parts are folded-u on each other along a 11116 3 The upper haf 1 is preferably made of greater length than the lower half, as shown in Fig. 1, to com ensate for the thickness of the contents, as t e lower half is intended to remain flat throughout its length while the closed end of theupper half curves to conform to the thickness of the papers held therein.

Either side of the u per leaf 1 of the receptacle, or both sides if desired, may be printed as shown to form an index sheet for the entry of the contents of the package, thus making it possible to readily ocate any paper desired without runnin through the entire contents of the receptac e.

Projecting from the closed end of the receptacle is a tongue 4, which is intendedto serve both as a ta upon which the subject of the contents of t e ackage may be briefly designated, and as a nger-grip to facilitate the withdrawal of the package from between a plurality of other similar packages. As considerable strain is exerted on the ton ue when its ackage is being drawn from cneath 2. pi e of other packages it is important that it be so attached as to lessen the liabilit of its being torn from its receptacle. In ig. 1 the tongue is shown as projecting from a transverse strip 5 through a slit 6 provided at the line of fold of the two partsof the folder, said transverse strip being glued or otherwise secured to the lower part .2 with its inner edge ap roximately coinciding with the line of fold, t us causing a pulling strain to be applieddirectly t0 the lower flat leaf 2 instead of to the upper half of the folder: This tongue and its attached strip may be cut from any suitable material. able information indicative of the contents of the wrapper may be printed on the tongue, such, for instance, as P. M. R.-Lumber, which shows that the contents relates to the lumber tariff on the P. M. Railroad.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 desire to secure by Let- Any suit- Q eee mi In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name to thie specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

tom, a tongue proieeting outwardly from the receptacle throng said slit and having an enlargement on its inner end fixed to the bot tom of the receptacle to prevent a With- GEORGE M. DONER. 5 drewal of the tongue either outwardly or in- W'itgesses:

Wardly from the slit, substantially as de-.- C. W OWEN,

scribed. HAZEL B. HIETT.. 

